This research reviews two different approaches to peace building in Colombia: liberal peacebuilding and decolonial peacebuilding. It argues that top-down approaches to peacebuilding in Colombia are flawed, as are unable to challenge one of the roots of the Colombian conflict: the coloniality of knowledge and power. The role of inherited colonial structures in the Colombian conflict is overlooked. Some peacebuilding approaches failed to deconstruct coloniality and end up reproducing it. This paper analyzes at the 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC, and further analyzes different decolonial approaches to Colombian peacebuilding. It identifies the culture of dialogue as a bottom-up approach capable of reconstructing imaginaries of peace and providing an emancipatory project to peace education and peacebuilding. The research concludes with lessons from the Colombian case and the use of a combined top-down and bottom-up approaches to peacebuilding.

Authors:
Patricia Aguado Gamero, Ewha Womans University, South Korea

About the Presenter(s)
Ms Patricia Aguado Gamero is a University Doctoral Student at Ewha Womans University in South Korea

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